Senior High: Sunday  4:00-5:30 PM   Pizza Plus:   Monday 5:00-6:30 PM Junior High: Monday 6:00-7:30 PM 

Current Events:

Fat Friday

February 12^th 6:30pm

Fat Friday is a joyful celebration before Lent begins filled with fun, games and lots of tempting desserts.  It is fun for the young and the young at heart.  Everyone is invited!

Snow Tubing at Titus

February 13^th 2-4pm

Titus Mountain’s tubing slide is 880’ in length with a 55 foot vertical drop going at speeds of 20-25mph.  We will meet here at the church for 1pm.  Wear warm clothes and boots.  Cost is $11 per person.  Open to anyone is over 42” tall, which means friends and family are welcome.  If you want to make a day of it, Titus is a family friendly mountain to ski/ride, gentle runs, affordable prices, and night skiing until 10pm.  Sign up with Marianne.

Souper Bowl of Caring

February 14^th Services

Our Youth are joining once again this year with the Largest National Youth Service Project, Souper Bowl of Caring.  Traditionally a collection of cans of food and/or money is taken on Super Bowl Sunday when many of us plan big parties and food spreads for the big game; while others go hungry.  The Super Bowl falls on the first Sunday of the month that is already packed with the annual meeting, communion Sunday, 3 cents a meal collection and we don’t want to add more to the day. Therefore we will wait a week and collect on February 14^th.    We will be focusing this year on collecting cans and food because we are already collecting money as a congregation through 3 cents a meal.  After the services on February 14^th, the youth will be collecting your cans, food items and monetary donations.  We have chosen the Interfaith Food shelf as our local recipient of our collection.

Winter Youth Retreat

March 19-21. 

This weekend retreat is open to youth in grades 6-12.  A deposit of $25 is needed now with your permission slip. Deadline for the deposits is February 15^th.

Service Auction

April 24^th 5:30 potluck, auction to follow 6PM

Our Service Auction was a huge success last year and we are gearing up for a great one again this year.  Start thinking about what you would like to offer this year or would like to see offered.  Successful items were ones that had a clear description of what was being offered, giving a specific date or time of year, and following up.  There will be a limit of 50 items for the auction again this year.  All money will be used for the youth mission trips.

Triennium July 20-24^th 2010

Every three years Presbyterian Youth from all over the country and world gather at Perdue University for a 4 day youth gathering. Youth eligible are entering 9^th grade in the fall through graduated seniors.  The gathering is a mixture of daily presentations, worship, prayer, recreation, small groups, and fun.  If you have not gotten your registration form in yet, do so now.  The Presbytery needs to send a final delegation number in February.  See Marianne to get signed up.

Reach Mission Trip

June 27- July 3 2010

Summer is a still a long way off, but we need to get commitments now for our summer mission trip. We will be going back to Reach Workcamps, this year in Lockport, NY.  To guarantee your spot, a $50 deposit and sign up forms must be completed and handed in.  We have sent in our deposit for 8 spots, adults included.

Bottle Box- Current total on January 2010: $349.55.  The bottle box is located next to the Family Promise entrance on the side of our church.  Each month a youth empties the box and the money is placed in the general youth mission fund for use on our yearly mission trips.

-iGive.com  Current amount raised: $67.29  The Youth Group has signed up with iGive.com and iSearchiGive.com to continually earn money for our mission trips we would like to go on.  It is quick, easy, and once it is set up, iGive.com will do the remembering for you when you shop to donate to our cause.  SELECT your favorite cause 1st Presbyterian Church Youth Group. Register with iGive.com and SHOP at brand name online stores through the iGive.com Mall. A portion of each purchase is donated to your cause. SAVE money with exclusive coupons/free shipping deals. Plus, when you shop within 45 days of registering we'll donate an extra $5 to your cause!

Family Promise Cleaning Kits- We are collecting buckets filled with cleaning supplies for families to receive when they get placed in a new home.  Supply lists can be found on the Youth Director’s Door.  Please leave supplies in youth director office. 

Prayer Partners: The Youth Council has begun a new, but simple program this spring.  The program is titled Prayer Partners.  Essentially the youth of the church will be paired with a member of the church for both parties to pray for each other.  This is a win-win effort.  Some of these relationships will develop into closer, more meaningful relationships beyond prayer.  The very worst case scenario is someone will be praying for you.  We have done the first round of match ups for all youth in our church from grade 4-11.  We are still in need of more volunteers as the youth program grows and new youth enter the 4th grade.  If you support this program and wish to volunteer to be a partner contact the church office.  We need as many volunteers as we have youth so please consider doing this wonderful endeavor.